Incident Name: grass fire
Date: 6/20/1987
Personnel: Merwin P Weitzell
Age: 66
Agency/Organization: Log Cabin Volunteer Fire Department
Position: firefighter
Summary: On June 20, 1987 firefighter Merwin P Weitzell was fighting a grass fire as a member of the Spillway Volunteer Fire Department when he suffered a heart attack and died.
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Spillway Volunteer Fire Department, Azle, TX (now Fort Worth)
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Reports, Documentation, Lessons Learned
- Record from the National Wildfire Coordinating Group’s list of Historical Wildland Firefighter Fatalities 1910-1996
- Date: 1987
- Fire Name/Location: Azle, TX, Spillway Vol FD
- Fatalities: 1
- Agency: PVT.
- Fire Behavior: Grass fire
- Remarks: Heart attack at a grass fire.
- United States Social Security Death Index: Merwin Weitzell
- Given Name: Merwin
- Surname: Weitzell
- Birth Date: 9 February 1921
- Social Security Number: 549-18-5668
- State: California
- Event Date: June 1987
- Age: 66
- Texas Death Index: Merwin Pomeroy Weitzel
- Name: Merwin Pomeroy Weitzel
- Gender: Male
- Event Date: 20 Jun 1987
- County: Henderson
- Event Place: Henderson, Texas, United States
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